Boeing looks to combat sim for war games

by Jason Dobson { Nov 1st 2007 at 10:10AM }

Air Assault Task Force, ever heard of it? Neither have we, but apparently the little known combat sim has not escaped the attention of Boeing, which has enlisted developer ProSIM to create a custom version of the title to be used as a "hyper-realistic ground combat simulator" for use in war games. With the ability to obliterate countless virtual lives, Air Assault Task Force puts the notion of games as killing simulators into perspective, but since the game is played from the cold comfort of an overhead tactical display, it makes everything a-okay.

According to Boeing, the title will be used in conjunction with tutoring software that the firm is currently developing, adding that the final product will "watch" a player as he plays, making suggestions along the way and after the fact, most likely on how to be a more efficient killing machine. That is until Matthew Broderick hacks the network and sends us all to the brink of global thermonuclear war. If you need us, we'll be in the Joystiq bunker. We have a bunker, right?

Tags: Air Assault Task Force, AirAssaultTaskForce, Boeing, Broderick, ProSIM, strategy first, StrategyFirst, war games, WarGames

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

gonk @ Nov 1st 2007 10:18AM

this reminds me more of Toys than WarGames

GRANTED @ Nov 1st 2007 10:31AM

graphics are on par with war games.

gonk @ Nov 1st 2007 11:08AM

do you remember Toys?

Poisoned Al @ Nov 1st 2007 11:26AM

I try not to.

gonk @ Nov 1st 2007 11:52AM

llcoolj was so good at camo

Rubang B (BRUSH WITH FAME) @ Nov 1st 2007 2:04PM

Toys rules.

Shmil @ Nov 1st 2007 10:36AM

wouldn't they rather play a nice game of chess?

Negativecool @ Nov 1st 2007 10:37AM

Murder simulators FTW!!!!

My murder professor said that all I needed was another 20 hours in the murder simulator to be classified as an assassin. I'm so excited!

driven2sin @ Nov 1st 2007 11:11AM

can you piss on a spark plug if it'll do any good?

JimJimBinks @ Nov 1st 2007 3:45PM

I was HOPING someone was going to bring up that line! Best part of that movie (Though I'm biase!)

Jonah Falcon @ Nov 1st 2007 11:29AM

Air Assault Task Force was released about a year ago. It was one of the premiere wargames of 2006.

Scott R. Krol @ Nov 1st 2007 12:21PM

Jonah, yeah, we released it December of '06 so it's been almost a year.

ProSIM games are also used by McDonnell-Douglas, the Department of Defense, and a number of militaries around the world, although those are with their older ATF series of simulations.

PiratePete @ Nov 1st 2007 12:33PM

Can you drop nukes?

J.Goodwin @ Nov 1st 2007 1:15PM

Most of the tech behind SEGA's Model 1 through 3 arcade hardware was from Lockheed Martin.

That's one of the reasons that porting those games to home consoles was such a pain in the ass. The LM tech rendered quadrilaterals, and most of the home/embedded tech rendered triangles.

*shrug*